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Quotes about Dad

Quotes about
dad are perfect ways to celebrate Father's Day. There are many
quotes about fathers that
can express your feelings for that
special man who has influenced your life in so many ways.

On Father's Day, families honor dad for his love and support and for
teaching children what is really important in life. These Father's Day
quotations and sayings can serve as inspiration when you need to
say the right words to dad.

Quotations
about fathers

The
greatest gift I ever had
Came from God;
I call him Dad!

-- Anonymous

My
father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person; he
believed
in me.
--Jim ValvanoWhen
a father gives to
his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
-- Jewish Proverb

One
night a father overheard his son pray:
Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is.
Later that night, the father prayed,
Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." -- Author
Unknown

Any man can be a
father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

--
Anonymous

By
profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact.
But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father.

A
soldier destroys in order to build;

the
father only builds, never destroys.
-- Douglas Macarthur

When I was a boy of fourteen,
my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man
around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at
how much he
had learned in seven years.
-- Mark Twain

Sometimes the poorest man
leaves his children the richest inheritance.

-- Ruth E. Renkel

A truly rich man is one whose
children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

-- Author Unknown

Love and fear.
Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

-- Joseph
Joubert

Parents can tell but never
teach, unless they practice what they preach.-- Arnold Glasow

My
father taught me to
work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln

A man knows he is growing old
because he begins to look like his father."
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Good parents give their
children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly
away and
exercise what's been taught them.
-- Jonas Salk

One father is more than a
hundred school masters.

--George
Herbert

My
grandfather once
told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those
who take
the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less
competition there. --Indira
GandhiA bad
father never has a good
son.

--Anonymous

From
the father comes honor;
from the mother, comfort.

-- Anonymous

Like
father, like son

-- Anonymous

By
the time a man
realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who
thinks he's
wrong.